Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part reality to five parts romantic memory of Napoleon and Louis XIV and four parts de Gaulle's concept of his personal destiny. In getting rid of the immobilism that characterized the Fourth Republic, de Gaulle and his government have picked up a generous share of political illusions, and chief among them is the grandeur upon which their diplomacy is based...
Government mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan met separately with both sides in morning and afternoon...
...Corsair, Alexander's yacht is a loft. dinghy moored at his Cape Cod summer home. While Morgan traveled in private railway cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief delight is to get out in the country, climb onto a tractor to harrow or mow a field. He likes to polish his own shoes, buys his suits off the rack at Tripler...
Alexander himself is Morgan Guaranty's chief bird dog. He moves through a constant round of meetings, receptions and official dinners with bankers, ambassadors, corporate presidents. He is constantly on the alert for the clue that will tell him where to find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer...
...sent to explain a legal problem to the younger J. P. Morgan. After he left, Morgan said: "I like that young man." Alexander's law firm assigned him to work as counsel for Morgan in the congressional investigations, and he became Morgan's chief counsel at the Nye munitions hearing, stayed by his side through his entire testimony. On Christmas Eve in 1938, Morgan summoned Alexander to his Wall Street office and invited him into partnership. After agonizing for more than a month about leaving the active practice of law, Alexander became a Morgan partner...